A new ethics complaint has been filed against Sarah Palin: Zane Henning, a North Slope worker from Wasilla, said he filed the complaint with the attorney general. He says Palin is promoting her future political career on state property, pointing in particular to the governor’s Nov. 10 interview with Fox News Channel host Greta Van […]
What a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal. Here is Home Depot cofounder and former CEO, Bernice Marcus has to say: But in the class war, as in the real deal, there are always ways of motivating the yellow. “If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money […]
Yup – that’s what the foundation of right wing idiocy, the National Review, is pushing, along with an attempt to get Time Magazine to name Palin “Person of the Year”. What’s one of their qualifying factors? On the lighter side, one foreign-policy expert showed up for a panel in a towel (but fully clothed underneath) […]
Wow: Consumer prices plunged by the largest amount in the past 61 years in October as gasoline pump prices dropped by a record amount. The Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices fell by 1 percent last month, the biggest one-month decline on records that go back to February 1947. The drop was twice as […]
Vendettas and ‘gotcha’ is the politics of old. It’s synonymous with the old attack ads, and something the American people have started rejected, rather strongly. Barack Obama campaigned on change. In two weeks since becoming our President elect, Obama has: Embraced his one time rival Hillary Clinton, offering her a top position in his administration […]
We are hearing that a lot lately. It is a very tough situation to wrap your head around, but while people are saying we should let the auto industry go, no one is saying what to do with the millions of jobs it will cost. It’s not that we need to bailout the auto industry, […]
It’s no secret that the Liberal blogosphere helped propel the Democrat out of the abyss of minority status in our government. Could the right wing blogosphere do the same for Republicans? Well if they continue following the path of idiocracy and taking push polls as gospel, then that won’t be likely unless America gets hit […]
Ted Stevens reelection bid has gone down the tubes. The AP is now calling the race for Begich.
Chuck Hagel today: “We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh,” Hagel said Tuesday during a speech in Washington, according to the Huffington Post. “You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office,” a sarcastic Hagel continued. “They have so much to contribute and so much leadership and […]
Poor Ted Stevens: Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dropped further behind Democrat Mark Begich in his re-election bid Tuesday as the convicted felon’s 85th birthday became a grueling wait that could determine whether his decades-long hold on power is over. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed the Anchorage mayor by 2,374 votes […]